You may never stop loving them. You may wake up ten years from now and still hold them in your heart with tenderness. You may still find them beautiful and you might even miss their laugh, but do you want to know a beautiful, happy, marvelous secret? Love doesn’t have to hurt. It doesn’t have to remain as this ache within you, yearning and burning for them. It will not always be painful. One day, you’re going to wake up and the spite will be gone. Don’t mistake this for redemption, it’s not. Don’t call them thinking you were wrong to have hurt when they hurt you. The spite will be gone and it
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